OF NORTH AMERICA, 
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15 to 20 feet high, leaves smooth (so says Nut- 
tal although Eaton calls them hairy beneath) 
not so cuneate, branches thorny, flowers sub- 
sessile <$«c. 
547. Bumelia denticulata Raf. shrubby 
inermous ? branchlets smooth rugose, leaves 
petiolate thin, broad oval elliptic, base acute, 
end subacuminate, margin remotely denticulate 
smooth on both sides, flowers solitary on long 
erect filiform pedicels, calix smooth, sepals 
round — from Florida, leaves 2 or 3 inches long 
with a few remote obtuse teeth on the sides, 
texture very thin, with veins rather than nerves 
slightly reticulate, pedicels over one inch long, 
stiff although filiform, flowers pretty large 
smooth. A very distinct species. 
548. Bumelia? serrulata Raf. shrubby 
inermous, branchlets cinereous with white dots 
leaves subopposite petiolate smooth, obovate 
elliptical acute at both ends serrulate glauces- 
cent beneath minutely veined reticulate with 
some scattered hairs— from Apalachian Mts. 
of Alabama small shrub, leaves small pale 
green, nearly glaucous beneath. Collected by 
Lyons, my specimen of Collins herbal has no 
flowers, but is labelled a new Bumelia, We 
have thus at least 10 sp. of this Genus with the 
6 already known, and I have nearly all in my 
Herbarium ; but one requires correction, 2 or 
3 sp. being perhaps blended under B . lanugi- 
nosa. My specimens collected by Ware in 
Florida have leaves elliptic obtuse or acute, 
hairy rusty beneath like the branches, and flow- 
ers thickly glomerate rufous hairy, is it a pe- 
culiar sp. B. rufa ? Raf. while the B. lanugi- 
nosa of Elliot and Authors, has leaves ovate 
lanceolate tomentose beneath, a third var. is 
